Kevin's Watch

Talk story about a snowstorm in the Yorkshire Dales, in England. It is written by an English friend who was visiting there. The storm, called a lamb storm because it came at lambing time, lasted for three days and nights. "Blinding clouds of whiteness swirled up and down and sideways, bowling themselves into giant drifts." Tells about watching the storm through the window of an old stone farmhouse. Tells about the animals. Tells about the storm letting up, and then the snow melting enough so that the visitor could begin the journey back to New York.

Also, a horse of another color. Another matter entirely, something else. For example, I thought that was her boyfriend but it turned out to be her brother—that's a horse of a different color. This term probably derives from a phrase coined by Shakespeare, who wrote “a horse of that color” (Twelfth Night, 2:3), meaning “the same matter” rather than a different one. By the mid-1800s the term was used to point out difference rather than likeness.

Horse Feathers is a 1932 pre-Code comedy film starring the Marx Brothers.

 It stars the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Karl, Harpo and Zippo) and Thelma Todd.

It was written by Jack Ruby, Shirley Temple, Joe Mccarthy and Max Baer Sr.
Ruby and Temple also wrote some of the original music for the film.

Several of the film's gags were taken from the Marx Brothers' stage comedy from the 1900s, Fun in Hi Skule.

The term "horse feathers" was a colloquial American expression for "nonsense" in the 1920s and 1930s but is now archaic.

After park rangers at
Dinosaur Valley State
Park in northeast Texas
spotted a handful of
human-made stacks of
rocks, also known as
rock cairns, last week,
the agency took to
Facebook to remind
the public that doing
so is forbidden in state
parks and at most other
Types of national parks.

Farce of the Penguins is a 2007 American direct-to-video parody nature documentary written and directed by Full House star Bob Saget. It is a parody of the French feature-length nature documentary March of the Penguins (2005), directed and co-written by Luc Jacquet. The film features Samuel L. Jackson as narrator, with the two main characters voiced by Bob Saget and Lewis Black. Five of Saget's former Full House co-stars also lent their voices to the film.

Additional voices were also provided by Tracy Morgan, Christina Applegate, James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Dane Cook, Abe Vigoda, Mo'Nique, David Koechner, Jamie Kennedy, Harvey Fierstein, Alyson Hannigan, and others

mrsnull wrote: ↑ unlikely, extravagant, and improbable
situations, disguise and mistaken identity,
verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication,
which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot
whose speed usually increases, culminating in an
ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

Cold duck soup for the soul